sacred scissors
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009the sacred scissors is a scissors that has been engraved with many sacred symbols. these symbols are not all of a type so that they might complement each other. if the many symbols of the sacred scissors were of this type then perhaps you could imagine such a scissors having some established place in a church or temple – or even among the accoutrements that could be listed by a wandering shaman or priestess. the many symbols of the sacred scissors are not of a complementary type and if you actually saw the scissors you would realise that they could never have any established place and though they have been smuggled across a hundred borders that no longer exist by housewives in sewing circles, capitalists in conspiracies, insurrectionists in revolutionary cells, and refugees in exile, but of the many religious hands they have passed through they have not left a religious finger.
as the sacred scissors is carved with many sacred symbols of different types it is inscribed with a language that no one person can speak. it is necessarily the product of many true believers from many different faiths that have each in their own desperate isolation scratched a single symbol onto the scissors in their time. There are bright recent scratches by jews and fascists, scientists and christians. The more recent symbols are carved over the older ones. I can see barely make out something that is possibly cyrillic. in the overlapping layers of intersecting symbols can be found some trace of every bunch of people that ever lit a fire to call itself a tribe. each symbol has had its own adherents and sacred value but as each symbol is scratched alongside all the others the sanctity of each symbol conflicts and contradicts with the sanctity of the other symbols. the sacred scissors is a thing of shared desperation. it carries so much sacred weight that this weight collapses in on itself like a black hole so that not even the smallest ray of either divine or ungodly light can escape. it combines monotheism, all the small gods, the secular proxies, and none. the sacred scissors is the most holy thing that has ever been created but at the same time it is not actually holy at all but more like the thing with which one can make holes.
the sacred scissors has cut the umbillical cords of babies to be abandoned; it has castrated devout rapists and circumcised disbelieving women; it dug a tunnel under the wire at auschwitz; it has both saved innocents in cruelty and deposed tyrants in kindness with the same jagged throat. the sacred scissors will always be sought out by those that want to cut something with intent.